Chapter: 266
An ungrateful little girl who dared disobey her father’s orders and left.
The duke looked at the flames and thought of his only daughter.
His eyes were sunken colder than the cold of the night.
Astelle was a useful tool. It was definitely the case six years ago.
The duke had the ambition to become regent by raising his daughter to be the empress from a very young age, making his grandson emperor.
He took the daughter of a venerable marquis family and married her to give birth to a daughter of impeccable descent.
When he got a beautiful daughter from his wife and betrothed her to the Crown Prince as planned, everything was running perfectly.
However, his plans were quickly guttered.
Because the emperor died suddenly, and Kaizen who became emperor ousted Astelle.
‘I should have married Astelle off earlier and had a child with the obedient Kaizen back then.’
The duke regretted it, but it was already too late.
The gentle and foolish previous emperor died, and the cold and clever Kaizen took his place. Even if he regretted it, he could not turn back time.
Astelle left the house after getting a divorce, she was kicked out and cut off contact with him.
The duke did not even know whether Astelle was dead or alive until Kaizen found her because of the will of Empress Dowager.
It turns out that Astelle had been living in the house of her maternal grandfather for six years.
“Yeah, that old man was there.”
Is there any other place out there for her to go?
In fact, when Kaizen asked about Astelle’s whereabouts, that was the first place that came to the duke’s mind, but he didn’t want to help Kaizen, so he said he didn’t know.
‘If you need her, you should find her yourself .’
The duke heard that one of the daughters of the Croychen family fought with Astelle and was put in prison.
It was worth seeing Marquis Croychen punished for his work.
He is trying to push his second daughter into the empress’s seat, but Kaizen doesn’t seem to be very interested in the daughters of Croychen.
Well, although Kaizen used to be kind to women.
The fact that he is on Astelle’s side this time was probably to please her because of Empress Dowager’s will.
Croychen’s daughter didn’t even know that and made a fuss.